Trump Strike On Iran Exposes Deep Divide Inside Foreign Policy Establishment
By Jennica Pounds | Commentary, The American Mind
Operation Epic Fury and the collapse of the multilateral myth.
t first glance, it seems that the Western establishment should welcome Operation Epic Fury. As Joshua Lisec and I document in our upcoming book, Unelected, the entire post-World War II order has been built on the premise that global security depends on the spread of democracy (or the downfall of tyrants at the very least). As United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a 2001 speech, there is “a need for more democracy on the global level, which is what the United Nations has been about from the very beginning.”
The global order is no fan of Iran. Atlantic writer and former National Endowment for Democracy board member Anne Appl...







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